Way to bring back rare childhood diseases, Jenny McCarthy. Mumps is now making a comeback.
A mumps outbreak on the East Coast — the largest in the United States in four years — may be spreading to Los Angeles County.
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Four of the mumps cases may be related to an outbreak, largely among Orthodox Jews, that has persisted in New York and New Jersey for almost a year. According to the New York State Department of Health, there have been more than 2,800 confirmed and probable mumps cases in New York and 315 in New Jersey.
The religiously conservative and Jenny McCarthites unite to bring us back to a simpler time, void of vaccines. Oh, this isn’t going to be good. And I hope it doesn’t worsen.
Health officials have been concerned about a drop in childhood vaccinations based on allegations, since discredited, that vaccines cause autism. The Times in 2009 reported that a rising number of California parents were choosing to send their children to kindergarten without routine vaccinations, putting hundreds of elementary schools in the state at risk for outbreaks of childhood diseases eradicated in the U.S. years ago.
That’s right, “since discredited”. When will they learn?
